Environmental History of Modern South Asia - Detailseite

This course examines environmental changes and challenges in South Asia in the context of modernization process. Covering the broad themes of land, forests, water and climate, the course will explore environmental practices, policies and politics. Students are expected to gain insights on the continuity and discontinuity in the history of interaction between nature and human agencies across the colonial and postcolonial divide, while also appreciating the tensions among the South Asian states about sharing major ecological commons such as rivers.

-Mahesh Rangaran and Shivarmakrishnan ed. India’s Environmental History (2012) [vol. 2 only]

-Michael Mann, British Rule on Indian Soil: North India in the First Half of the Nineteenth

Century (New Delhi: Manohar, 1999)

-Iftekhar Iqbal, The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State and Social Change 184-0-1943 (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

- Stig Toft Madsen, ed., State, society and the environment in South Asia (Richmond : Curzon, 1999)

-Christopher V. Hill, South Asia: an environmental history (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008)

-Gunnel Cederlof and K Sivaramakrishnan, Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006)